Sea The Light
Sea The Light is a 4-year-old who has found winning a tough business, with just one victory from eight races — roughly a 1-in-8 return. That single win came at Newcastle back in May 2025, and it remains the sole highlight of a career that has otherwise been a long search for a repeat. The most recent six runs tell a frustrating story: finishing sixth three times, then seventh twice, with just one second-place finish to break the monotony. Nothing in that sequence suggests a horse on the verge of a breakthrough.Based on TrackLab's analysis
📊 Key numbers
Career totals for this horse
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Wolverhampton (AW)
About 1.2 miles · Standard all-weather surface · 11 runners
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🔍 Full analysis
Our model's view, based on this horse's career and recent runs
Trained by John Butler at Newmarket — a yard that has been in fine form this season, sending out 39 winners — Sea The Light has done its best work at a lower level, yet even there the results have dried up. In three races at Class 4, the horse is yet to win, which is a concern. Class 4 is mid-tier racing in Britain, the kind of level where a horse like this should at least be competitive, so a blank record there is not easy to explain away.
What keeps the story alive is that Sea The Light raced just yesterday, meaning this is a horse still very much in action and with time to turn things around. At four years old, there is no reason to write it off entirely. But until something changes in those finishing positions — which have been stuck in the mid-to-back half of the field for months now — it is hard to make a strong case that a second win is just around the corner.
⚡ Strengths and risks
What helps this horse and what to watch out for
✓ What works in their favour
✔ Excellent record on standard ground: 1 wins from 3 starts (33%)
🎯 Where this horse runs best
Results split by ground, distance, race level and track shape
🌧 Ground
Standard (all-weather)
Loves
Standard to slow (all-weather)
Unknown
Good (a little give)
Unknown
Good to soft (some give)
Unknown
🏅 Race level
Class 4 (standard)
Avoids
Class 5 (entry-level)
Unknown
🏟 Track shape
Left-handed, long straights
Loves
Right-handed, long straights
Avoids
📅 Recent runs
The last 10 races, most recent first
6 Jul
7th
Wolverhampton
1m1f – 1m2f · Standard · 13 runners
4 Jun
11th
Ffos Las
1m1f – 1m2f · Good_To_Soft · 13 runners
1 May
7th
Newcastle
1m3f – 1m4f · Standard · 12 runners
13 Oct
6th
Kempton Park
1m3f – 1m4f · Standard_To_Slow · 9 runners
27 Aug
6th
Kempton Park
1m3f – 1m4f · Standard_To_Slow · 7 runners
7 Aug
6th
Sandown Park
1m1f – 1m2f · Good · 7 runners
6 Jun
9th
Doncaster
1m1f – 1m2f · Good · 16 runners
2 May
🏆 Won
Newcastle
7f – 1m · Standard · 7 runners
🏇 Jockeys
Every jockey who has ridden this horse, most rides first
🏟 Course record
Win rate at each course this horse has visited
| Course | Races | Results | Last run | Win rate |
|---|
| Newcastle Galloping |
2 |
1 win, 1 other |
1 May |
50% |
| Kempton Park Galloping |
2 |
2 other |
13 Oct |
0% |
| Doncaster Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
6 Jun |
0% |
| Ffos Las Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
4 Jun |
0% |
| Wolverhampton Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
6 Jul |
0% |
| Sandown Park Galloping |
1 |
1 other |
7 Aug |
0% |